Obama’s alleged attack on Catholic schools was no such thing

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Jun 22, 2013 at 12:15 PMJun 22, 2013 at 10:14 PM

At a town hall meeting earlier this week in Belfast, Northern Ireland, President Obama said this:

Because issues like segregated schools and housing, lack of jobs and opportunity — symbols of history that are a source of pride for some and pain for others — these are not tangential to peace; they’re essential to it. If towns remain divided — if Catholics have their schools and buildings, and Protestants have theirs — if we can’t see ourselves in one another, if fear or resentment are allowed to harden, that encourages division. It discourages cooperation.

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Pat Cunningham

At a town hall meeting earlier this week in Belfast, Northern Ireland, President Obama said this:

Because issues like segregated schools and housing, lack of jobs and opportunity — symbols of history that are a source of pride for some and pain for others — these are not tangential to peace; they’re essential to it. If towns remain divided — if Catholics have their schools and buildings, and Protestants have theirs — if we can’t see ourselves in one another, if fear or resentment are allowed to harden, that encourages division. It discourages cooperation.